Origin of Henna. The art of henna (called mehndi in Hindi & Urdu) has been practiced for over 5000 years in Pakistan, India, Africa and the Middle East. There is some documentation that it is over 9000 years old.
ox (plural oxen) 1  An adult castrated male of cattle (B. taurus). 2  Any bovine animal (genus Bos). A neat, a beef.
For the punk band, see Oxymoron (band). For the album by rapper Schoolboy Q, see Oxymoron (album). An oxymoron (usual plural oxymorons, more rarely oxymora) is a rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox. A more general meaning of contradiction in terms (not necessarily for rhetoric effect) is recorded by the OED for 1902.